New York, NY (Top40 Charts) RCR Wireless News spoke with more than a dozen companies for this report, including mobile operators AT&T; vendors like Hitachi, F5 and Metaswitch; industry analyst firms Ovum, Strategy Analytics, Signals Research Group, Senza Fili Consulting and Wireless 20/20; and organizations looking to unify the NFV process like OPNFV and OpenDaylight to gain deep insight into the current NFV market. The report, entitled "Network Functions Virtualization: Standards, Ecosystem and 2015 Predictions" contains vital takeaways including how mobile operators are looking to tap into NFV and SDN platforms to fight churn; the advances vendors are implementing into their solutions in order to support customer efforts; the changing influence of the standards process; and advances expected in 2015.
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What is NFV and how it fits into the mobile telecom ecosystem
Market potential for NFV vendors
How the industry has rapidly moved to develop NFV platforms
The impact the standards process is having on NFV deployments
Challenges still facing the NFV ecosystem
What to expect of NFV as it evolves in 2015
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Margaret Chiosi, President of OPNFV and Distinguished Network Architect at AT&T Labs
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LS Ravi, Senior Director, Hitachi
Peter Margaris, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, F5
"The rapid ascension of virtualization in connection to the telecom space has been exciting to watch as vendors, standards bodies and trade organizations have attempted to gain a handle on developing platforms," Meyer explained. "As many noted, NFV is being pushed by telecom operators, which has sort of placed the vendor community on the back leg as it attempts to provide solutions that operators are comfortable deploying. This has led to a long list of significant challenges still facing the NFV ecosystem, which could prove to be a tall hurdle to overcome."
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